A group of more than 20 people gathered at the Greenbelt Youth Center parking lot and walked down to the forebays of Greenbelt Lake to talk about the future of the water quality in Prince George’s County and how Greenbelt Lake can improve our water supply. The Clean Water Partnership is an agreement between county government and Corvias Solutions to retrofit up to 4,000 acres of impervious surfaces using green infrastructure, according to the partnership’s website.
The county is federally mandated to complete the retrofit of 8,000 acres of impervious surfaces by 2025, according to the Prince George’s County website. The Greenbelt Lake forebays work is one of the larger projects the Clean Water Partnership is working on currently, said David Washington, program executive. The Greenbelt Lake forebays project will mitigate a “high amount of acreage for a reaForebays Project to Help County Clean Water Goals by Jill Connor sonable price,” said Ken Dunn, managing member of Soltesz, the consulting firm hired by Corvias. Dunn said that “Greenbelt serves as a stormwater management facility in everything but name but it’s missing something critical: your forebays were not designed to handle the volume that the lake itself has.” The forebays are supposed to filter silt and debris that washes into Greenbelt Lake from upstream. “What doesn’t get trapped here, goes right over there,” said Neil Weinstein, executive director for the Low Impact Development Center, pointing from the forebays to Greenbelt Lake. To read more click HERE